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Soulight - your mobile well-being companionFri, 04 Jan 2019 09:38:43 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.25Soulight Updatehttp://www.musemantik.com/soulight-update/
http://www.musemantik.com/soulight-update/#commentsFri, 04 Jan 2019 09:38:43 +0000http://www.musemantik.com/?p=1092Continue reading →]]>Musemantik participated in the Transformative Technology Academy ( https://ttacademy.co/ ) in 2018 in order to improve its product offering and strategy. This academy is a forum for global leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs leveraging digital technology for mental health, wellbeing, and joy.
]]>http://www.musemantik.com/soulight-update/feed/0Soulight Research updatehttp://www.musemantik.com/soulight-research-update/
http://www.musemantik.com/soulight-research-update/#commentsTue, 26 Jun 2018 09:41:43 +0000http://www.musemantik.com/?p=1073We are delighted to share an update about the academic research done about Soulight incl. some future plans. See the 3 min video.
]]>http://www.musemantik.com/soulight-research-update/feed/0Soulight Demo Videohttp://www.musemantik.com/soulight-demo-video/
http://www.musemantik.com/soulight-demo-video/#commentsTue, 24 May 2016 14:04:57 +0000http://www.musemantik.com/?p=1044Continue reading →]]>We made a video where Maciej, Founder & CEO of Musemantik, demonstrates how to use the current version of Soulight (for Android) starting with the philosophy of finding and expressing emotions using a combination of colours, music, words and emoticons. He then shows how to use the screen “find your mood” to create daily emotional self-awareness, the screen “explore your mood” to be musically mindful and “move forward” to shift your mood to a better one. Maciej also briefly explains the scientific motivation behind the app.

It talks about the inspiration behind Soulight, the design process and much more. Here are some excerpts:

“These ‘emotion spaces’ are a new kind of user interface paradigm. What Google Maps does for the ‘outside’ universe, this does for your inner world. We do ‘emotion space mapping for your soul’ (which is where our name comes from). When you navigate around, it’s like the Google Street Map car taking pictures of your emotional landscape. […]”

“People are afraid of AI, and we have stories going back to the 1930s of ‘killer robots’. But if we channel our creativity, AI helps you to heal. That’s our vision, a hopeful one that is an antidote to the many dystopian visions.”

Tuesday 26 May 2015: Innovative digital health and wellbeing company, Musemantik, are releasing Soulight, a mobile app delivering personalised interventions to help people track and reflect on their mood, encourage awareness and mindfulness, boost wellbeing and reduce anxiety, stress, and depression. With support from social investor Nominet Trust, the Scottish Government and New Media Scotland’s Alt-w Fund, Musemantik is today unveiling a free beta version of Soulight to Google Play with the full product set for release in late 2015.

Vicki Hearn, Director, Nominet Trust, says, “We’re hugely excited to be supporting Soulight; while we all know how music can transform our emotions, the health sector has been slow to adopt it as a serious complement to traditional techniques. This is starting to change, however, as traditional providers start to grasp just how powerful an impact music can have on people’s wellbeing – and offer a cost-effective solution. This app has real mass potential; the beta phase of testing will ensure it is delivering the right support and user journey.”

Soulight is a wonderful tool for everyone, especially those suffering from depression, the most common healthcare problem in the UK, affecting one in five adults at some point in their lives. The NHS estimates the economic cost of anxiety, stress and depression to be over £105 billion each year, including treatment costs, lost productivity at work and reduced quality of life, and these figures represent just those that seek help; many suffer in silence.

“A number of recent path-breaking studies in areas such as mindfulness, music therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy show there are innovative approaches for treating the lack of mental wellbeing. We value interdisciplinary innovation and are inspired by all of these methods,” says Maciej Zurawski, Founder and CEO, Musemantik. “Soulight uses a unique combination of simple words, emoticons, colours and music to help people find their emotional state and bring awareness to it in a mindful way; helping them feel better.”

Musemantik is an Edinburgh-based digital health and wellbeing company founded by Dr Maciej Zurawski, an entrepreneur and composer who holds a Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh’s Artificial Intelligence Instituteand experienced business professional, Diwakar Thakore, a MBA alumnus from University of Edinburgh and currently Chapter Leader of Health 2.0, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Soulight is powered by MusicFlow, Musemantik’s innovative music technology platform that enables delivery of personalised experiences on the web and on mobile.

]]>http://www.musemantik.com/soulight-public-beta/feed/0The Science behind Soulighthttp://www.musemantik.com/the-science-behind-soulight/
http://www.musemantik.com/the-science-behind-soulight/#commentsThu, 25 Dec 2014 19:43:00 +0000http://www.musemantik.com/?p=1016Read our blog post about the science behind Soulight:http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/node/2007
]]>http://www.musemantik.com/the-science-behind-soulight/feed/0Soulight – The Journey so Farhttp://www.musemantik.com/soulight-the-journey-so-far/
http://www.musemantik.com/soulight-the-journey-so-far/#commentsSat, 01 Nov 2014 17:50:39 +0000http://www.musemantik.com/?p=1012See our new blog post about Soulight:http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/what-we-support/blogs/idea-to-soulight-journey-so-far
]]>http://www.musemantik.com/soulight-the-journey-so-far/feed/0Technology Highlight: A New Music Formathttp://www.musemantik.com/technology-highlight-a-new-music-format/
http://www.musemantik.com/technology-highlight-a-new-music-format/#commentsTue, 18 Feb 2014 08:58:37 +0000http://www.musemantik.com/?p=811Continue reading →]]>Musemantik has created the Dynamic Music Format that opens a new world of possibilities. Music doesn’t any longer have to be a static recording. In this new world, music is adapted to the listener to provide a track that is perfect for them. It can be made perfect to fit their visual story, e.g. a photo slideshow, to fit a situation, e.g. when they are running, or a state of mind, e.g. to lead them from sadness to joy. The composer tools makes it possible for anyone to create music in this new format. And we are developing the consumer applications to harvest all these opportunities.

Some of the key technical facts about the Dynamic Music Format:

• From a dynamic score one can create thousands of different tracks.• It works with any musical genre, even atonal music and soundscapes. The music can use recorded instruments and even vocals, or synthesized sounds.• A dynamic score can be controlled by one or several emotions.• Scores can be either created in the online composer tools, or we can convert your normal linear recording to our format on your behalf.• A dynamic score can be adapted to fit the story of the moving image.• A dynamic score can offer fine-grained mood modulation that evokes the right emotion in the right moment.• The dynamic music format enables highly scalable delivery of customized music in the cloud. This can power applications used by millions of users. And this in turn enables a highly scalable business models with attractive growth potential.

]]>http://www.musemantik.com/technology-highlight-a-new-music-format/feed/0Mobile Health & Well-Being Section and Soulight Sign-Uphttp://www.musemantik.com/mobile-health-well-being-page-and-soulight-sign-up/
http://www.musemantik.com/mobile-health-well-being-page-and-soulight-sign-up/#commentsWed, 12 Feb 2014 14:59:17 +0000http://www.musemantik.com/?p=797Continue reading →]]>This year you will see new mobile products from us, for entertainment and for well-being. We have now launched the Mobile health and well-being section. Sign up now to the Soulight Newsletter and you will be notified of the free beta release of the Soulight App.
]]>http://www.musemantik.com/mobile-health-well-being-page-and-soulight-sign-up/feed/0Musemantik selected to deliver Soulight, a novel solution for creating personalised musical journeys for health and well-beinghttp://www.musemantik.com/musemantik-to-deliver-soulight/
http://www.musemantik.com/musemantik-to-deliver-soulight/#commentsWed, 24 Jul 2013 17:46:52 +0000http://www.musemantik.com/?p=658Continue reading →]]>Music can entertain, and make film and other media a true emotional journey.
But it can also affect our mood, resonate with what we feel, evoke emotions
and lead us to well-being. Musemantik, using MusicFlow’s versatile API, is
due to deliver a very innovative project, Soulight, that will deliver
personalised musical journeys to lead the listener from their current state
of mind towards health and happiness.

Soulight is a novel digital application that allows people that suffer from
depression and other mental illness to experience a personalized musical
health journey, but we envision that many more people will be able to use it
for holistic healing and general well-being. It allows the users to reflect
upon their personal journey towards health and well-being, and transform
that into a high-quality musical track in a user friendly way. Users can use
Soulight to reflect what they feel, imagine where they want to go and share
their experiences with their friends online.

This project and the MusicFlow API license is supported by New Media
Scotland’s Alt-w Fund with investment from the Scottish Government and
Creative Scotland.

Click here to register your interest to test the Soulight app for free. We might also ask you to fill out a questionnaire that helps to provide the right functionality.